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EXCLUSIVE: Meghan’s First UK Sighting...at the Most Predictable Place in Rural England

Royalist readers, you heard it here first: Meghan dropped into Soho Farmhouse for an early morning coffee.

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Tom Sykes
Sep 05, 2026
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Well, folks, I’m pleased to be able to bring you a Royalist exclusive: the first sighting of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, in her new home country.

Meghan was at Soho Farmhouse this week, the rural outpost of the luxury London private members’ club in north Oxfordshire. Multiple sources have confirmed her presence at the venue to me.

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It was an early trip. She arrived alone, I’m told, before 9am, and made her way directly to the relaxed upstairs area known as the Comfy Farm (a sort of lounge space above the main restaurant from which children are banned). When she arrived, sources say, a considerable “fanfare” was made of her, and she was informally introduced to several senior staff members by name, suggesting that they at least hope she will be a regular.

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